24/02/2026
My name is Patrycja Bączek, and I am a Dance Movement Psychotherapist (DMT). I am one of only a few professionals with this qualification currently working in Iceland. All of us completed our training abroad, as Dance Movement Therapy education is not yet available in Iceland.
I completed a four-year professional training program in Warsaw, and I gained my clinical experience through placements and work in various Icelandic institutions. I facilitated a group for school-aged children with migration experience at Vesturbæjarskóli, led a group for adolescents at the Polish School in Breiðholt, and worked both in group and individual settings in Sigurhæðír with women experiencing anxiety disorders, depression, codependency, fibromyalgia, psychosomatic pain, and the wide-ranging effects of traumatic experiences on daily life and relationships.
From the very beginning of my training, I have worked under both group and individual supervision, and I remain in continuous supervision as part of my professional practice. I am also engaged in my own parallel therapeutic process, which I experience as an essential foundation for ethical, embodied, and relational therapeutic work.
A particular source of pride for me is the fact that Dance Movement Therapy exists as a permanent part of a therapeutic program in Iceland only at Sigurhæðír—the place where I gained my experience and, following my internship, became a member of the therapeutic team.
In my work, both conversation and movement are forms of communication. This is not about “dance” as learning steps or focusing on aesthetics. It is about being in contact with the body—with what emerges, what wants to move, pause, or be noticed. The body is at the center of the process. Through movement, therapeutic relationship, and reflection on what unfolds in the body—tension, impulse, sensation—it becomes possible to regulate the nervous system, build a sense of safety, and gradually restore agency, vitality, and connection with oneself and others.
I work individually and in groups, both in person and online.
Through both my personal life and my professional practice, I deeply believe and experience that movement can be a pathway to profound change.
I would like to close with a quote by Anna Halprin:
'Every experience I’ve had in my life is a resource in my body'.